Progressive-score tally.



.110. 754,442; PATENTED MAR. 15, 1904.

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PROGRESSIVE soon TALLY.

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PATENT OFFICE.

IRVING W. GREEN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

PROGRESSIVE-SCORE TALLY.

, SPEGIFICATI ONforming part of Letters Patent No. 754,442, dated March15, 1904.

Application filed December 26, 1903. Serial No. 186,571. (No model.)

of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inProgressive-Score Tallies, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in score-cards, and especially tocards or slips for indicating the number of games Won by the personholding the card in playing what is known as progressive pedro orsimilar games where four persons play at each table and two or moretables are used, each table being numbered and the two winners at eachtable moving to the next table at the end of each game.

The object of the invention is to provide a very simple andcomprehensive card, so arranged that any mistake or dishonesty in thescore may be detected at once and one which is novel and attractive inappearance.

To this end the invention consists in providing a card which is scoredacross, so that parts may be severed, and provided with figures andindicating-words, substantially as shown in the accompanying drawing, inwhichv the figure represents the face of a card embodying the invention.p

A is a long narrow strip of paper, cardboard,or other suitable material,having a head or top portion A bearing data indicating the table atwhich the player holding the slip shall play the first game and also thecouple to which he shall belong where the players are to play aspartners, the-word Couple being printed and a blank left in which may bewritten 1 or 2 to designate the particular couple to which the playerholding the slip belongs, this space being left blank when the playersare not to play as partners. An indicated line on which the player is towrite his name is also provided, and between this line and the. lowerportion A of the slip is a space in which any information, ornamental"picture, design, or other matter may be printed or placed. On the lowerportion A of the card or slip and near the left-handedge thereof isprinted a column of figures, with the heading Table No, to indicate thenumber of each table at which the player will play and arranged in theorder in which he will play at these tables, reading from the bottom ofthe column up. Therefore if, as shown in the drawing, the player holds aslip marked Table No. l in the heading the figure at the bottom of saidcolumn will be 1, as he is to play at this table first, and the figurenext above in the column will be 4, as upon winning a game at table No.1 he will move to table No. 4. Near the right-hand edge of the lowerportion of the strips is a column of figures arranged in their numericalorder, beginning with 1 at the bottom of the column, which number isplaced opposite the second number from the bottom of the columnindicating the table, so that when the player moves from table No. 1 totable No. 4, as indicated in the ta ble-column, the other column willindicate that one game has been Won by showing the figure 1 opposite thefigure 4. The lower portion of the card is also scored transverselyacross at B between the numbers of each column, forming detachablestrips C, so that every time the player wins a game he may tear of? oneof these strips, and the strip remaining at the bottom of his cardshould always indicate the table at which he is then sitting and alsothe number of games he has won. sitting at the table indicated on thebottom of his card, it will at a glance be seen that amistake has beenmade and that he has detached more strips than he has won games or thathe has not detached as many. Cards like'the one shown in the drawing areused at thefirst table when there are but four tables; but when more orless tables are used the table-column must be correspondingly numberedto include the other tables. The cards for the second table must show a2 at the bottom of the table-column, those for the third table a 8',&c., so that the numbers in said columns will be arranged according tothe order in which the player will play at the tables.

The. column indicating the number of games won may be omitted, ifdesired, the games won being ascertained by counting the num- If theplayer is not ber of strips still attached to the card and subtractingthat number from the total number originally contained in the card.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- 1. Ascore-card having ahead portion provided with data indicating the tableat which the player shall first play and a lower portion provided with acolumn of figures corresponding with the numbers of the tables andarranged in the order in which the player will successively sit at thetables, and provided with a column of figures arranged in theirnumerical order, beginning with the figure 1 which is placed oppositethe number in the other column indicating the second table at which theplayer will sit.

2. A score-card having a head portion provided with data indicating thetable at which the player shall first play and the couple at that tableto which he belongs, and a lower portion provided with a column offigures corresponding to the numbers of the tables arranged in the orderin which the player is to play at the tables with the number indicatingthe first table at which he plays, at the bottom of the'column, a secondcolumn of figures arranged in their numerical order beginning with thefigure 1 with said figure opposite the figure in the tablecolumnindicating the second table at which the player will play, data at thetop of each column to identify the same, and lines extending across thecard between the figures of each column upon which line the card is tobe severed.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

IRVING W. GREEN.

Witnesses:

OTTO F. BARTHEL, THoMAs Gr. LONGSTAFF'.

